One of my college fraternity brothers spent most of our sophomore year trying to learn to play the lead guitar part on Black Magic Woman. It was incredibly annoying. He was also an all conference college baseball pitcher and went on to become a nuclear engineer. Thanks for the memory recall.
If have Netflix and are in your mid to late 50's and have not seen "F is for Family" yet do yourself a favor and watch it NOW. One of the best animated series ever. The animators NAILED the rendering of the typical suburban housing tract of the time. Good stuff and like really well written comedy - teaches some deep lessons regarding family, forgiveness and acceptance.
Great historian and talented writer, Peter Green. The Year of Salamis, the Alexander bio, Alexander to Actium, so many other wonderful histories (and some novels).
Brookings Institute and its former president Strobe Talbott now implicated in Russia collusion hoax.
In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee accused the head of the Brookings Institution, Strobe Talbott, of being directly involved in the anti-Trump dossier and stated he is examining “the three ‘D’s” of the dossier: its development, dissemination, and defense. “They [the Brookings Institution] were involved for sure in the dissemination and for sure in the defense of the dossier. We just don’t know yet were they also involved in the development,” Nunes said, adding it would be a “major” part of the story.
Watching Zero Zero Zero on Amazon Prime right now. It has Kind of quirky way of starting at th he end and flashing back to the beginning, but otherwise pretty cool. Lots of blood and violence though. And some pretty nasty characters. Not sure if there is a hero in it at all.
Well I just got surveyed again. Never heard of these outfits who call. Never been called by Rasmussen or Pew. Caller's accent was terrible. Call center is probably in Wuhan.
Anyway this time I told them I'm a Hispanic and independent.
Noticing that the BLM lawn signs are starting to disappear in my very blue neighborhood. Is their act starting to get too distasteful for even my suburban white female neighbors?
The No Home for Hate lawn signs lasted years. A few are even still up. BLM not so much.
Street in my town has a couple houses that face each other. One has a sign with Black Lives Matter on one side, Look Listen Learn on flip side. The house across the street has a We back the badge sign. About half way down the block is a house with a huge Canadian flag. Is that your summer place, Ken B?
The Peter Green guitarist was absolutely amazing, as in "Clapton and B.B. King were probably jealous" level amazing, and the Peter Green classicist wrote some books that are very much worth reading, or at least browsing.
I think, IRL, the classicist was a little less into drugs, which is always a positive attribute one likes to see in one's friends, but my guess is both of them could be called fun people to be around most of the time.
BTW, I have noticed that some of the regular male commenters around here have become, for lack of a better word, worryingly negative in the last few months. Nobody should ever care what a performance artist such as myself has to say about the state of someone else's soul, but I do have some advice, take it or leave it.
Whether you are a tough guy having some hard times, or someone who does not think they are tough having hard times ----- There are people who want to help you feel better about the world. Find one of them and talk to them. It worked for me again and again in years long gone - if you woke me up in the middle of the night and asked me to talk for hours and hours about all the wonderful people who cheered me up when I was down, or the people who let me know they cared when I had reason to feel little hope, I could go on and on for hours, not just until the morning, but all the way through the next day and the next night and until the morning after, and probably longer than that, with a little more Red Bull or coffee than would be good for me ..... and to tell the truth I have not really known all that many people in my long life.
Cor ad cor loquitur, as they say, and "God loves us all just the way we are, but loves us too much to let us stay that way", and then there is this -----
stay strong, because some day somebody will need you. and you want to be there that day, because no matter who you are, you have love in your heart, and you want to be there when you are needed.
(and if you really don't (think you have love in your heart anymore) ... well, if you ask, my very real guardian angel will pray for you so so hard that you will forget the time when you thought you didn't.)
but really none of this has anything to do with me. God is there, wanting to help, and you are where you are, and it has nothing to do with me or anyone else in the way that it has to do with you and your Creator. just ask God, with a humble heart, for strength.
@Bill, Republic of Texas, Andy Ngo tweeted the aftermath of white Antifa member David Hempe stabbing Drew Duncomb, a black Trump supporter -- a video of Duncomb's friends administering a bit of street justice on Hempe before turning him over to the police.
the IG Report says that the FBI had tentatively identified the 'primary sub source' as “Person 1” as early as October 2016, and that the FBI had an open investigation on him. FBI waits about a year to interview him, for 3 days, and a couple times after. They had to know by then what bs this was.
David Laufman from the DoJ gave Danchenko a "use immunity" deal. What leverage did Danchenko have to wrangle the deal? His "social contacts"? facebook friends like olga Galinka?? Laufman himself said his role was to develop a “cooperative relationship”. Was Laufaman's deal to use him as a “Cooperating Human Source”, and get dirt on Trump from his russian cronies? Or was the deal to keep Danchenko from spilling the beans to the media that the whole thing was fake?
c. 1600, from Middle French enthousiasme (16c.) and directly from Late Latin enthusiasmus, from Greek enthousiasmos "divine inspiration, enthusiasm (produced by certain kinds of music, etc.)," from enthousiazein "be inspired or possessed by a god, be rapt, be in ecstasy," from entheos "divinely inspired, possessed by a god," from en "in" (see en- (2)) + theos "god"
Jay Vogt - I like the tequila - my choice is Lowry's choice - mescal, the drink of the Gods or the Devil, depending on whether your a Conquistador or being conquered - Pete Green was something I loved - Eric Clapton, who, at one point, was called a God, had his moment in the sun and then faded - the Doors guitarist, is it Pete Krieger (? I forget and hate wiki!), could knock his socks off - Pete Townsend, everyone's called 'Pete' - the point being Peter Green made one 'sweat'.
I just saw a guy Tweet "We've gotta send kids back to school so one day they can be doctors and scientists, and everyone can ignore them" and it's the first REAL indication - since 2005 when I started saying "My wife left me for a homeopath" - that anyone's grasped the horror I've been living with.
Look at this young man's reaction to the concept of taxes - really look at it. He's so pissed, he's CRYING. Imagine if he didn't have a family to explain it, as too many don't - as I didn't.
THAT'S what we need answers for - not your come-from-behind-unhelpful-unless-in-a-perfect-world pablum.
"Won't go into a list here, but the number of amazing guitarists from the mid 20th century is stunning and is not re-happening."
Very much agree with this, and I don't think it is "Back in my day" thinking.
One exception that comes to mind is Joe Bonamassa. Terrific guitar playing both technically and with a lot of feeling. Has a personal signature to his style too. Very creative and works like a dog (when allowed). There are other notables - Jack White, Gary Clark Jr., Dan Auerbach - but the shortness of the list pretty much makes your point.
Popular music these days is not centered on the guitar, so maybe that's the reason.
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R.I.P. Peter Green. He gave so much of himself.
The only man who packed for a weekend trip heavier than I do.
R.I.P. John Saxon
"It's the dough, Roper, or we gotta break somethin'."
"R.I.P. Peter Green. He gave so much of himself."
Oh Well
I sure do hope this happens to Royal ass Inga and/or Howard:
https://thepostmillennial.com/radio-host-dunks-on-trump-by-claiming-seattle-riots-are-peaceful-then-rioters-torched-his-apartment-building
I want them to get what they want.
I am on their team.
Apollo is sneaking up these days. A shy Sun God.
Not In My Back Yard is a hard red pill to swallow
What did it look like at 25 or 6 to 4?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QlkcC3aCsM Choose Me - think - not me but the wind that blows through me.
"R.I.P. Peter Green. He gave so much of himself."
Could 'Black Magic Woman' be a hit today?
The late Garrett Foster claimed those who oppose protests are “too big of pussies to stop and actually do anything about it.”
The delicious tweet.
A typical leftwing metro-queer. Didn't know a pussy from his own anus, that's why he's meat for worms now.
Hey, did you hear, via Instapundit, how "protests" in California "intensified"?
I love how the relatively low light source highlight's the underside texture of the clouds.
Peter Green, great guitarist, in the top 10 all time. "A Fool No More" is one of my favorites. Oh Well.
RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QlkcC3aCsM
I think I did that twice - 'love', is a verb, a feeling, an action - what is the point? A pointed point. A noun.
First photo for color, but third for the added boat providing scale...
radio-host-dunks-on-trump-by-claiming-seattle-riots-are-peaceful-then-rioters-torched-his-apartment-building
I want them to get what they want.
I am on their team.
United in solidarity and common cause.
That said, is a democratic form of government (e.g. mob) a civil rights violation?
One of my college fraternity brothers spent most of our sophomore year trying to learn to play the lead guitar part on Black Magic Woman. It was incredibly annoying. He was also an all conference college baseball pitcher and went on to become a nuclear engineer. Thanks for the memory recall.
The riots are becoming harder to keep hidden. The "mostly peaceful" descriptor is wearing out. Arson and gunfire tend to make the news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRtcqSNCJ4s
If have Netflix and are in your mid to late 50's and have not seen "F is for Family" yet do yourself a favor and watch it NOW. One of the best animated series ever. The animators NAILED the rendering of the typical suburban housing tract of the time. Good stuff and like really well written comedy - teaches some deep lessons regarding family, forgiveness and acceptance.
Great historian and talented writer, Peter Green. The Year of Salamis, the Alexander bio, Alexander to Actium, so many other wonderful histories (and some novels).
Oh, different guy!
Narr
Too bad about the other one
Could 'Black Magic Woman' be a hit today?
Desperado
Any lib commentators want to talk about the two black Trump supporters that were attacked this weekend?
One was gunned down in front of his store in Milwaukee. The other was stalked and stabbed in Portland by a white pedophile Antifa supporter.
Still proud of your team? Any second thoughts?
"Following Accusations Of Racism, University Dorm Named After Flannery O’Connor Gets Renamed"
I wonder what has happened with the local university's women's dorm, Beaver Hall. The guy may not have been a racist at all.
Brookings Institute and its former president Strobe Talbott now implicated in Russia collusion hoax.
In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee accused the head of the Brookings Institution, Strobe Talbott, of being directly involved in the anti-Trump dossier and stated he is examining “the three ‘D’s” of the dossier: its development, dissemination, and defense. “They [the Brookings Institution] were involved for sure in the dissemination and for sure in the defense of the dossier. We just don’t know yet were they also involved in the development,” Nunes said, adding it would be a “major” part of the story.
Watching Zero Zero Zero on Amazon Prime right now. It has Kind of quirky way of starting at th he end and flashing back to the beginning, but otherwise pretty cool. Lots of blood and violence though. And some pretty nasty characters. Not sure if there is a hero in it at all.
Well I just got surveyed again. Never heard of these outfits who call. Never been called by Rasmussen or Pew. Caller's accent was terrible. Call center is probably in Wuhan.
Anyway this time I told them I'm a Hispanic and independent.
That'll get me some follow-up.
Noticing that the BLM lawn signs are starting to disappear in my very blue neighborhood. Is their act starting to get too distasteful for even my suburban white female neighbors?
The No Home for Hate lawn signs lasted years. A few are even still up. BLM not so much.
Street in my town has a couple houses that face each other. One has a sign with Black Lives Matter on one side, Look Listen Learn on flip side.
The house across the street has a We back the badge sign.
About half way down the block is a house with a huge Canadian flag.
Is that your summer place, Ken B?
The Peter Green guitarist was absolutely amazing, as in "Clapton and B.B. King were probably jealous" level amazing, and the Peter Green classicist wrote some books that are very much worth reading, or at least browsing.
I think, IRL, the classicist was a little less into drugs, which is always a positive attribute one likes to see in one's friends, but my guess is both of them could be called fun people to be around most of the time.
BTW, I have noticed that some of the regular male commenters around here have become, for lack of a better word, worryingly negative in the last few months.
Nobody should ever care what a performance artist such as myself has to say about the state of someone else's soul, but I do have some advice, take it or leave it.
Whether you are a tough guy having some hard times, or someone who does not think they are tough having hard times -----
There are people who want to help you feel better about the world. Find one of them and talk to them. It worked for me again and again in years long gone - if you woke me up in the middle of the night and asked me to talk for hours and hours about all the wonderful people who cheered me up when I was down, or the people who let me know they cared when I had reason to feel little hope, I could go on and on for hours, not just until the morning, but all the way through the next day and the next night and until the morning after, and probably longer than that, with a little more Red Bull or coffee than would be good for me .....
and to tell the truth I have not really known all that many people in my long life.
Cor ad cor loquitur, as they say, and "God loves us all just the way we are, but loves us too much to let us stay that way", and then there is this -----
stay strong, because some day somebody will need you. and you want to be there that day, because no matter who you are, you have love in your heart, and you want to be there when you are needed.
(and if you really don't (think you have love in your heart anymore) ... well, if you ask, my very real guardian angel will pray for you so so hard that you will forget the time when you thought you didn't.)
but really none of this has anything to do with me. God is there, wanting to help, and you are where you are, and it has nothing to do with me or anyone else in the way that it has to do with you and your Creator. just ask God, with a humble heart, for strength.
@Bill, Republic of Texas, Andy Ngo tweeted the aftermath of white Antifa member David Hempe stabbing Drew Duncomb, a black Trump supporter -- a video of Duncomb's friends administering a bit of street justice on Hempe before turning him over to the police.
Steven,
I had a glass of tequila just before I read that. Read it. Now, I'd like another tequila.
Thanks, that was lovely.
Won't go into a list here, but the number of amazing guitarists from the mid 20th century is stunning and is not re-happening.
Quaestor -
Awesome!
the IG Report says that the FBI had tentatively identified the 'primary sub source' as “Person 1” as early as October 2016, and that the FBI had an open investigation on him.
FBI waits about a year to interview him, for 3 days, and a couple times after.
They had to know by then what bs this was.
David Laufman from the DoJ gave Danchenko a "use immunity" deal.
What leverage did Danchenko have to wrangle the deal? His "social contacts"?
facebook friends like olga Galinka??
Laufman himself said his role was to develop a “cooperative relationship”.
Was Laufaman's deal to use him as a “Cooperating Human Source”,
and get dirt on Trump from his russian cronies?
Or was the deal to keep Danchenko from spilling the beans to the media that the whole thing was fake?
Top Democrat Jerry Nadler: Violent Antifa Riots In Portland Are ‘A Myth’
The picture is priceless.
Enthusiasm____________________________________Gap!
100 days out, and interest for Biden is in the cellar, where he hides...
... effete, addled and wan.
the "Joementum!" artifice was malarkey, degenerating into "Joementia".
GEOTUS, on the other hand, inspires!!
enthusiasm
intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
synonyms:
eagerness · keenness · ardor · fervor · warmth · passion · zeal · zealousness
c. 1600, from Middle French enthousiasme (16c.) and directly from Late Latin enthusiasmus, from Greek enthousiasmos "divine inspiration, enthusiasm (produced by certain kinds of music, etc.)," from enthousiazein "be inspired or possessed by a god, be rapt, be in ecstasy," from entheos "divinely inspired, possessed by a god," from en "in" (see en- (2)) + theos "god"
Spectacular photos!
- Krumhorn
I'm glad you 'edited me' - I feel 'edited' - but you're right. I'm just a dirty little old poodle who wallows in his own mess. Edit me!
Jay Vogt - I like the tequila - my choice is Lowry's choice - mescal, the drink of the Gods or the Devil, depending on whether your a Conquistador or being conquered - Pete Green was something I loved - Eric Clapton, who, at one point, was called a God, had his moment in the sun and then faded - the Doors guitarist, is it Pete Krieger (? I forget and hate wiki!), could knock his socks off - Pete Townsend, everyone's called 'Pete' - the point being Peter Green made one 'sweat'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZalpM9GNNk
What happened to the boy
I just saw a guy Tweet "We've gotta send kids back to school so one day they can be doctors and scientists, and everyone can ignore them" and it's the first REAL indication - since 2005 when I started saying "My wife left me for a homeopath" - that anyone's grasped the horror I've been living with.
"Get married, stay married, blah blah, blah."
Here's an example of how easily a life can fly off the rails.
Look at this young man's reaction to the concept of taxes - really look at it. He's so pissed, he's CRYING. Imagine if he didn't have a family to explain it, as too many don't - as I didn't.
THAT'S what we need answers for - not your come-from-behind-unhelpful-unless-in-a-perfect-world pablum.
My town, Rockwall, Texas. This was Saturday and we watched from our porch with our flags proudly flying.
Lake Ray Hubbard Boat Parade
"Won't go into a list here, but the number of amazing guitarists from the mid 20th century is stunning and is not re-happening."
Very much agree with this, and I don't think it is "Back in my day" thinking.
One exception that comes to mind is Joe Bonamassa. Terrific guitar playing both technically and with a lot of feeling. Has a personal signature to his style too. Very creative and works like a dog (when allowed). There are other notables - Jack White, Gary Clark Jr., Dan Auerbach - but the shortness of the list pretty much makes your point.
Popular music these days is not centered on the guitar, so maybe that's the reason.
"I don't know what-the-fuck is going on, but I think white women started it."
Bill Burr, Paper Tiger (2019)
Me, almost every year before that, since 1995.
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